Dr. William Foege, a leader in the global eradication of smallpox, has died. He was 89. Foege was director of the U.S.

A leader in the global fight against smallpox and a champion of vaccine science, William Foege died last Saturday ...

DEADLY smallpox, which claimed the lives of an estimated 500 million people in the 20th century, could help trigger the next ...

Health experts should prepare for smallpox, the only human disease ever to have been eradicated, to make a reappearance domestically and internationally, a new report says. The report from the ...

William Foege, a leader in the global fight to eliminate smallpox, has died. Foege passed away on Saturday at the age of 89, according to the Task Force for Global Health, a public health organization ...

Dr. William H. Foege, an international public health giant credited as a visionary in the earliest days of Bill and Melinda Gates’ global health programs, and who developed the vaccination strategy ...

H. Foege, a former CDC director who helped eradicate smallpox and whose health work saved millions of lives, died Saturday in ...

William Foege, a Decorah-born physician who led the CDC and pioneered the strategy that helped eradicate smallpox, died Jan.

It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s house in 1970. But two days into the visit, something went terribly wrong. The 9-month-old grandson fell ill. First, a fever. Then, a nasty rash.